Today, I was in the add-ons mgr. and I wanted to research an add-on that a user talked about in this forum... so, I clicked on 'Get add-ons' in the manager display. The loading circle appeared and never came up with the normal displayed data. I clicked on the close-tab X that I have and the browser froze. Hmmm... I thought... forced Firefox closed, tried it again... same thing... worked on it for about 15 minutes then tried the same thing in my test profile... same problem... Tried Firefox safe-mode... all was well then.

Then I check for 'recent updates' and noted Flagfox and NoScript were updated on the 27th... disabled Flagfox... same problem... then I disabled NoScript, restarted Firefox and I do not have the problem now...tested many times. I also noticed that it stuck on 'Looking up Discovery.addons.mozilla.org' (maybe the . wasn't after the word Discovery... don't remember).

So... I believe everybody knows that the extension NoScript is pretty hard to work with at times... at least it is for me... anybody have any ideas on what to turn off or on or ?? I don't think that I put into... or clicked on anything in that extension to affect the add-ons page... I think

Last edited by dfoulkes on July 29th, 2017, 10:07 am, edited 1 time in total.

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I checked the poster's solution of turning of the cross site sanitizing and it was opposite (on) but the idea an extension is causing the problem could be it .Also it might not hurt to look at the item noscript.untrusted in about:config to see if it was listed.This can be edited out but watch the spacing and punctuation and make note of any change.

@gorhill - dfoulkes is using Windows, that link is specific for Linux. I have no issues like dfoulkes described.

Some strange things going on here. Checked again (Get addons) and this profile froze again. Restarted it and was looking around... noticed that the NoScript icon on my add-on bar showed a line thru it... even on this page... which was not normal. Moused over that icon and it showed that 'all scripts globally' as on. I've always stayed away from that setting and it seems to have gotten turned on with the latest update. Anyway, turned it off, tried that Get addons again and it still froze ... killed Firefox, started it up and now I don't have that problem...

And believe me... I never turned it on so it must have triggered it at the update.... that's all that I can think of... unless I have some bad stuff running around in here... ran my four different (stand-alone) checkers and they came up clean.

So, thank you all for your help on this...it seems to be cleared up 'for now'.

As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!

Hi df,re; The last update, if as you say, of No Script may have caused the change to it's settings, thenI'd be going to their forum & asking why & if anyone else has seen/noticed a similar issue.Just an idea.

I visited that NoScript link that Brummelchen posted for me and if I recall correctly... I did see the same problem posted there... but then I took a few days off from computers, came back (info posted above) and it's working now.... as long as it still works I'm going to stay away from that site... too much goes on in ones head... if you know what I mean. ... but if it hits again I will venture over there and post... Hey... and thanks for keeping tabs on me .

As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!

@dfoulkes - for what it's worth.Usually the line through the icon means something is blocked or there is a warning.Secondly: Un-check "Scripts allowed globally(dangerous) Any settings questions for a specific setting just ask.People don't seem to like it because they have to make sure the settings are OK but for the most part the defaults are good.Somethings which you might want to look at:The Whitelist tab, make sure there's nothing in the list which shouldn't be there, you'll still be able to open those sites as long as you haven't declared them as untrusted.Appearance Tab: make sure Allow scripts globally is unchecked there as well.Notifications Tab : check the followingShow message about blocked sites (look at the settings) - Place message at the bottom - Hide after x# seconds, more may be better for a good decision.Check the following: XSS; Show message about blocked META redirections; ABE (applications boundary enforcer); Clearclick WarningAlso but subjective: Audio feedback and display of release notesAnything on the advanced tab PM me. Same for General TabNoScript works fine if you take a little time in the beginning and it holds your changes during updates, there's also A:C editing which can help if needed.

I guess it was not 'exactly' a line... though at first... it looked like it... it was that red exclamation mark. After doing some minor look-up on some of that stuff I realized that it was the global-allow setting.

NoScript works fine if you take a little time in the beginning and it holds your changes during updates

Yep... after years of using it ... and at first I did review all of its works... it was working fine... then bam! ... I have to assume that the update did the change.... but you know... 'old' fingers have a way of doing their own thing ... but for now, I'll blame it on the update... after all, I never make a mistake

As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!